The recognition by Nature has come just three years after Dr. Achal Agrawal began raising awareness about and reporting on research-integrity violations by Indian researchers through the Indian Research Watch (IRW), a volunteer-run non-profit organisation he founded in November 2022
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Science did not retract the paper in 2012 because there was no deliberate fraud or misconduct on the part of the authors. But Science’s standards for retracting papers have since expanded. If a paper’s reported experiments do not support its key conclusions, even if no fraud or manipulation occurred, a retraction is considered appropriate
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In August 2018, former IIT Dhanbad Director had said that scientific misconduct by Prashant Kumar Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri appears serious and may attract major penalty. In April 2021, Prashant Sharma was promoted as Associate Professor
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Finally, UGC is set to introduce a course for PhD students on research and publication ethics. Ironically, the course will
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Indian doctors at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh have their ‘Image in Clinical Medicine’ photo published in the
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Two papers of Prof. Kithiganahalli N. Balaji from IISc have been retracted and three more have been corrected for issues
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Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, a senior scientist at ICMR’s NICED has 16 papers listed on PubPeer for image duplication and/or manipulation.
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A Russian website has listed 344 papers accepted for publication by journals from different countries where authorship is available for
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Scrutinising images for tell-tale signs of manipulation is no longer a hobby for Dr. Elisabeth Bik; it has become a
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The searchable database of retracted papers launched by RetractionWatch shows 982 papers from India have been retracted so far. Of
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About half a dozen IISc researchers have 33 papers listed on Pubpeer for image duplication. Most of the duplication is
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The Department of Applied Chemistry at IIT Dhanbad has 45 papers listed on Pubpeer for image duplication and/or manipulation. Of
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On June 6, two days after the report on image duplication in papers by CSIR-CDRI scientists was published, the director
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